Those Time Lord collars do serve a practical purpose.
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#Doctor Who #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
I seriously want to take a rolled up newspaper and whap these so-called BDSM erotica writers on the nose every time their Dom characters ignore the Sub’s hesitation or flat-out refusal to do something in a scene.
NO. BAD.
…this post appeared on my dash directly after a post about Fifty Shades of Grey.
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#Fifty Shades of Grey #juxtaposition
A Practical Guide to Being Homeless
So as many of you who’ve been following me for a while may know, I’ve been homeless for almost two years now, and spent 7 months of that on an actual sidewalk. Leading up to the start of those two years (and for many years prior; my life has a habit of being unstable), I tried desperately to find any information I could on how to survive if I did end up on the streets. The day came where the concrete was my only option and I still hadn’t found anything useful beyond “get a car and a gym membership” as most “guides” have been written by people who could afford a car. Now, I could just have high standards for lowlife, but if you can afford a car, a gym membership, and a night at a hotel every week, you probably don’t actually need a guide telling you how to use those things.
Currently one of my close friends is looking at being on the streets, and since I’ve been asked about stuff like this before and genuine resources are so hard to find, I figured I’d put together the best guide I could, informed by and based on my personal experiences actually living through this.
Some of the things I experienced will not happen to everyone— many of them never will. My situation was an extremely lucky one, in one of the safest, richest, and friendliest cities in the entire United States. But much of what I’m going to be talking about should apply to everyone.
This list assumes that you are not going to be spending your nights in a shelter, for whatever reason you may have. Mine was social anxiety and a lack of queer-friendly options that weren’t already overflowing, and I chose not to put up with the few options I did have. Someone else’s reasoning might be a lack of a choice at all. Maybe you have no local shelters, or don’t have any that you are eligible for. Either way, you’re looking at spending your nights on the actual cold hard sidewalk.
This also assumes that you have virtually no money. You may occasionally wake up with large bills tucked between you and your bag or in the side of your shoe (one of the perks of being in a richer area), but let’s assume you don’t have a job yet. If you do, then you have a huge step up. Don’t let go of it.
So, given all that, here we go!
This is a good guide. Thankfully, we had our miserable hole to sleep in, so weren’t stuck on the street, but this is good solid advice. Libraries are a bum’s best friend.
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#homelessness #the more you know #I find it slightly odd that this operates under the assumption that #’handheld gaming device’ #’cell phone’ #and ‘voip-capable computer’ #are three separate devices #(I mean they *can* be but we are firmly in the era of cheap smartphones) #(mine cost $89 brand-new including tax and a pair of earbuds) #but okay
Nathan Fillion’s panel Q&A at Phoenix Comic Con | June 7, 2014 (x)Q: If Firefly had gone on longer, what is something you would’ve hoped to have gotten to do with either just Mal or the story in general?
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#Firefly
I’ve been wondering lately about the topology of Tumblr.
It’s best known for having a science side, but also has a lot more. Nobody (to my knowledge) has a master list of what sides there are, but Tumblr does contain (in approximate order of “what was the top result when I asked Google to exclude the others”) weird, dark, fandom, social justice, math, funny, technical, techinical, geek, clean, skeleton war, and weather sides. And many more.
These sides tend to intersect a lot, and they are not remotely the same size. Unless you think there are equal numbers of posts mentioning (to pick two) weather and cats.
The shape we’re looking at has few or no faces that share a vertex without also sharing an edge. (Tetrahedron and dodecahedron pass this, cube and octahedron fail.) This is because any two sides of Tumblr that share one point almost certainly share two. There are going to be very few pairs of subjects that have precisely one post about both of them.
The question I really want an answer to is, assuming we knew the number of sides and everything, how many spatial dimensions it would take to build a Tumblr.
But whenever I thought I had made progress on that my brain collapsed under the weight of shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity by whose obscuration the Mathematicians have already been prompted into making a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. That, and I got lazy.Instead, I’ll settle for changing the shape of Tumblr and rendering any existing model obsolete. To do that, I’ll publish a post that represents an intersection between sides of Tumblr in a combination that has never occurred before. This will add an extra vertex to our city of crazily elusive angles where the relative position of everything is phantasmally variable.
That post is of course this one. It’s primarily part of the Tumblr side of Tumblr, but also the geometry and math sides, the…cold inhuman urban geometry side? That exists? Well this post is on it, along with most of the posts that mention R’lyeh I guess. And I can stretch to claim that this is part of the Christian side of Tumblr for its St. Augustine quotation. That this post is also an intersection with the geek side goes without saying. Probably more. I’ll make it part of the English side by pointing out that all uses of the Oxford comma are deliberate.
Finally, to make extremely certain that no earlier post has intersected the same set of sides as this one, I’ll add the cat, political, and “gunblr” sides to the list by saying that there should have been a stricter background check for the following gun owner:
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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Bullets might have someone’s name on them, but 20 kilos of ANFO is more “To whom it may concern”.
A particularly philosophical street samurai.
which way does a cyclops wing their eyeliner
tumblr user greenhoused is asking the real questions
It doesn’t matter, because Nobody is going to criticize their makeup.
WAS THAT A MOTHER FRACKING ODYSSEY PUN
Well, it wasn’t a motherfucking Oedipus pun, that’s for sure.
I think I’ve found my favorite post
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#mythology #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
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#dog #overly literal interpretations #probably have reblogged this before
